Isvecli roman ve oyun yazari August Strindberg’in dogum yildonumu (22 Ocak 1849)
"Dus goruyorum, demek varim. / I dream, therefore I exist."
"Bir gun bir cocuga sormustum deniz neden tuzludur diye.Babasi uzun bir sefere cikmisti. Cocuk hemencecik karsilik verdi: ‘Deniz tuzludur cunku denizciler durmadan aglarlar!’ ‘ Neden denizciler boyle cok aglar ki!’ ‘Cunku’ dedi ‘yolculuklari bitmez.Onun icin de mendillerini hep direklere asip kuruturlar.’ Yine sordum: ‘Ya nicin insanlar uzgun olunca aglar?’ ‘Cunku’ dedi ‘daha duru gorebilelim diye gozlerin camini ara sira yikamak gerek"
“I once asked a little boy why the sea was salt, and the boy, whose father was away on a long journey, said right away, ‘The sea is salt because the sailors cry so much.’ ‘But why do the sailors cry so much?’ I asked. ‘Because,’ he said, ‘they always have to go away from home- and that's why they're always drying their handkerchiefs up on the masthead!’ And then I asked him, ‘But why do people cry when they're sad?’ And he said, ‘That's because they have to wash the glasses of their eyes so they can see better."
“Bak, bu magaranin yapisi bir deniz kabugunu andiriyor, goruyorsun, degil mi? Kulaginin da bir deniz kabugu yapisinda oldugunu bilmiyor musun? Bilirsin, ama aklina gelmemistir. (Kiyidan bir deniz kabugu alir.) Cocuklugunda boyle bir deniz kabugunu kulagina koyup da kaninin damarlarinda uguldayisini, dusuncelerinin beyninde vizildayisini, vucudunun dokusunda bin bir yipranmsi ipligin kopusunu dinledigin olmadi mi hic? Butun bu sesleri su kucuk kabukta duyarsin.”
“Don't you see how the grotto is shaped like a sea- shell? Yes, of course you do. Don't you realize that your ear is shaped like a seashell? You do, but you haven't thought about it.(She picks up a shell from the beach) Didn’t you ever as a child hold seashell to your ear and listen… listen to the buzzing of your heart’s blood, the murmur of thoughts in your brain, the bursting of thousands of tiny threads in the fabric of your body…These things you could hear in a little shell, imagine what you’ll hear in one this big!”
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